![]() While there, Rahne meets an immortal Wolf Prince with the same powers as hers, and they apparently fall in love… which, let’s not be (Hank Mc)coy, must have been a furry awakening for some readers. After this, Loki transports the entire team to Asgard as part of some scheme. And fight the Xavier family enemy, the Shadow King. Rahne has to face Reverend Craig again when the team goes to Moira’s Muir Island Research Center to help Professor X’s son, Legion. Later, she is possessed by Dagger’s powers, which cause Rahne to temporarily become her feminine physical ideal she wishes she could be, tall, with long flowing hair, and living in a luxury hotel. ![]() When Warlock joins the team, Rahne is the only one who immediately defends him and wants to save him, whereas the others are at first ready to let him die. Whether it’s because of the Bear’s influence or just a result of her frequent transformations, she also starts feeling a lot more bloodthirsty in her wolf form. New series artist Bill Sienkiewicz draws her bestial hybrid form with a wild, almost demonic stare. Left alone without the supervision of Professor X and the X-Men (who have disappeared once again because of the events of Secret Wars), the New Mutants enter the storyline that will completely redefine the title: the “Demon Bear Saga.” As the book descends into horror territory, Rahne’s transformation reflects that change in tone. This leads to a heart-to-heart with Cannonball, who, although a Christian himself, was never taught the same stigma.Ĭollects: New Mutants #18-25 And New Mutants Annual #1 In her mind, just being on the same team as Magik means that she too is a child of the Devil. ![]() This becomes especially true once Magik joins the team living and fight side-by-side with a sorceress from a demonic dimension goes against everything Rahne learned from Rev. And while this new life of adventuring allows Rahne to finally be surrounded by people who love and care for her (especially Dani Moonstar, with whom she forms an empathic link), living with other mutants only makes her self-loathing stronger. In barely ten issues, the team goes from a lost Roman city in Amazonia to the dimension of Limbo and Emma Frost’s Massachusetts Academy. She is shy and insecure, ashamed of her appearance, and convinced that mutant powers in general-and especially in the cases of Magik, Nightcrawler, and her own-come from the Devil himself. From the start, writer Chris Claremont establishes the traits that will define Rahne for the entirety of The New Mutants: her traumatizing religious upbringing and the self-loathing about being a mutant that resulted from it. She is found by Moira, who protects her and ends up adopting her as her foster daughter. The first is 14-year-old Rahne Sinclair, who is introduced running away from an angry mob led by the abusive pastor who raised her, Reverend Craig. When the X-Men seem to have died in space (as they often do), Professor X and Moira MacTaggert form a brand-new class of 5 teenage mutants from around the world. Rahne’s story begins in the pages of the 1982 graphic novel The New Mutants, by Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod. Support CBH on Patreon for exclusive rewards, or Donate here! Thank you for reading! When you buy through links on our site, we may earn a qualifying affiliate commission.Ĭomic Book Herald’s reading orders and guides are also made possible by reader support on Patreon, and generous reader donations.Īny size contribution will help keep CBH alive and full of new comics guides and content. So switch to your wolf form, howl at the moon, and let’s talk about mutantdom’s resident Scottish werewolf!Ī Wolf in Mutant’s Clothing: Growing up with the New MutantsĬollects: Marvel Graphic Novel #4, New Mutants #1-7, Uncanny X-Men #167Ĭomic Book Herald is reader-supported. Though often relegated to a side character in those teams, far from the center of major stories, Rahne is something of a fan-favorite (particularly in those early issues of Chris Claremont’s The New Mutants.) Whether you read her introduction in the Claremont Era or you discovered her in the new Krakoa era of X-Men, or anywhere in-between, this guide will help you track her journey through the Marvel Universe from 1982 to 2021. ![]() Throughout her Marvel Comics history, Rahne has jumped from mutant team to mutant team, from the New Mutants to X-Factor, Excalibur, X-Force, and the X-Men themselves. This guide is meant for these two wolves and for anyone else who seeks to know more about everyone’s favorite hairy mutant whose name starts with a W. One loves Rahne Sinclair, and the other has always wanted to learn more about her comics history.
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